[Blindtlk] games

[Cari Kness]

Hi Julie,
My dad and sister taught me a new game recently. It's a card game 
called Wizzard. It's not available in braille as far as I know but 
it's easy to get and braille. Wizzard deck contains the 52 cards plus 
4 wizzard cards and 4 jesture cards. It's not hard once you learn it 
and directions are included. Backgammon is also a really fun board 
game as is Othello. Othello is available at Future Aids and 
Backgammon I believe is available at Independent Living aids. I 
bought my Wizzard deck at a store called Games by James but I'm sure 
it's available elsewhere. HTH.  Also, you can buy tactual Cribbage 
boards and a braille deck of cards. One more thing. There is 
available a card book that tells of lots of different games you can 
play with a simple deck of cards. Oh, I thought of one more. Rack-o. 
Again, it has 60 cards easy to braille. The numbers are 1 through 60. 
The new version has other stuff on them but you can play the old way. 
The little racks have raised numbers down the sides too. It's fun. 
Just tought an 8 year old how to play not long ago.
Peace,
cari
At 02:39 PM 2/1/2010, you wrote:
>Hello all!
>
>I am looking for games to play with my family and a teen I 
>mentor.   I am specifically wanting something that can be played in 
>30 to 60 minutes, is easy to learn, is appropriate for people age 12 
>and over, costs less than $30 and is self contained...meaning a 
>board or card game.
>
>If it's already playable by blind people out of the box that would 
>be most excellent!  If not I can Braille or label as necessary 
>within reasonable limits.  For example I would have no problem 
>Brailing a deck of cards, but Brailing an entire set of Trivial 
>Pursuit cards is out.  I just do not have that sort of time.
>
>I have looked at some of the more common blindness product web 
>sites.  I have found all sorts of cards, checkers, chess, Bingo, 
>dominoes and tic tac toe , as well as some classics like Monopoly 
>and Scrabble.   I am really interested in newer games or more 
>uncommon games.
>
>All ideas and suggestions are most welcome!
>TIA
>Julie
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